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Grab a pizza at http://www.leonardosmillhopper.com/ if you are out and about. Not the other Leonardo's by the slice (different owner long story). It was famous there when I graduated in 78 and it is still great.

Legal pad. I have my process. I don't repeat frq changes until I have them entered (gtn750). Course or altitude changes always get written down and read back after writing. I have one of those auto recorders but I only use it (and rarely) after exchanges that make me say hmmm. Not enough time...

Agreed. I would rather get a new device than change to another EFB. Also Foreflight keeps getting better with every update. Customer service is amazing, even on Sunday. I have no affiliation w the company other than being a customer. I do not use a stratus so I pay $150 per year. A Garmin...

Grandfather on mother's side bent metal for airplane skin and worked on turbines on the aft side WWII. Father was engineer and SAR pilot in USCG until he retired as an admiral. None had significance until I was 50 when I thought "What am I waiting for?"

Just no!

Recipe: Get a gorgeous plane, throw in a beautiful day seasoned with bucolic countryside. Whip up with an amazingly talented photographer. Repeat.

My airport lets us land on and take off the grass parallel to the runway. Nothing written that I know of. Nothing reckless about it. A taxi way seems to be the same type of situation. I recall a local airport TTA was resurfacing their runway and had operations (with size restrictions) landing...

90 day? http://flash.aopa.org/asf/single_pilot_ifr/site/html/misc/instrument_currency.cfm

I opted for a factory reman TIO-540 Lycoming for my Mirage. It was a first time OH block with what appeared to be all new components. New exhaust, turbos, wiring, injectors, cylinders, pistons etc. I do not know if the cam was new or reman. It runs like a dream and burns only a quart of oil...

I passed the plane a short while after it came down. He landed w gear down and side slid down into the grass where apparently the gear collapsed. There were obvious skid marks on the pavement. The other choice if he could not slow would have been the overpass. Missing the power lines was no...

"You found no water, what do you do with the fuel you just removed?" If no particulate is in the fuel I return it to the tanks. If there is water or particulate I discard. Be aware that some states are not good with the later.

Most of my flying is GPS based. That said in many parts of the country you fly airways and radials. Use the OBS to follow two intersecting airways with no fix at the intersection. Use the OBS to take off RW heading and join a radial to a 20 mile dme point and resume own navigation...

After I got my PPL I continued training to get my IFR. Logbook says about 2x week IFR training with more x as the checkride approached.

AOPA VREF gives some guidance

I happily fly with my family, friends and business associates. I do have different SOPs with passengers however. I do not embark on an IFR flight by myself if ceilings are forecasted to be 500 or less at destinatin. I move that up to 800 with passengers. That said I have had to to land at...

Given my type of xcountry flying, I believe that the value they bring is a great bargain. No more paper charts and plates and a reliable backup to instruments on an iphone and ipad at the same time for no extra charge. Don't tell them but I would pay even more and still like it. I once...

I shoot an approach at night, even if just VTF, just like in the soup until I have the runway made. Treating myself to LEDs this annual. Older eyes. P

You can always ask.

The Husky takes off in 300 feet so only time for OP and seat of the pants. In the Mirage I look at runway position.. at least 60KTS at 1000 ft. at gross + MP42 + Turbo feel + OP + Temps. Abort right after 1000 ft if not making speed and seeing/feeling turbo power.

I did 10 night landings there for my commercial. I was doing stop and goes in my 182 while a C130 from one of the nearby bases was doing touch and goes. The size of the runway is huge. I do not know why they still have a tower there given the volume.